I'm going to buy a few air tools now that I have an adequate compressor and piping system in my garage and I'm looking for brand recommendations. I've had a Craftsman impact for a long time and it works fine. I also have a Husky cut-off wheel and an Allied Pneumatic 3/8" drill motor. They all seem to work fine. I see Central Pneumatic at Harbor Freight, TPTools stuff there along with Chicago Pneumatic and Rockwell and, of course, Craftsman at Sears. The prices seem to run the gamut. Anyhow, looking for some recommendations. Thanks.
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re: Air Tools
i love my snap on stuff but it don't sound like you need it or want to pay the price.
so CP is good went well oiled and the cheepy walmart Coleman set really is not that bad If you run good oil and the right air sized fittings. But you need a air dryer because the walmart unit freezes up with wet air
and yea I run all my air tools at max air pressure, or just over
but with all air tool the performance is helped big time buy just the large air fittings, even my snap on unit sucks ass when I use the cheep cp small air fittings.
for example my $700 snap on impact gets beat badly for torque if I run small fittings on it and big fittings on a cheepy unit.
so CP is good went well oiled and the cheepy walmart Coleman set really is not that bad If you run good oil and the right air sized fittings. But you need a air dryer because the walmart unit freezes up with wet air
and yea I run all my air tools at max air pressure, or just over
but with all air tool the performance is helped big time buy just the large air fittings, even my snap on unit sucks ass when I use the cheep cp small air fittings.
for example my $700 snap on impact gets beat badly for torque if I run small fittings on it and big fittings on a cheepy unit.WHAT ?